was middle school mostly good or bad for you?
1d 2h ago by piefed.social/u/therealverobiscuit in asklemmy@lemmy.ml
had a middle school ex in seventh grade who called me a “weird bisexual” and “bowling ball /bowling ball stomach”. had another kid who was a popular girl spread a rumor abt me that i was a lesbian with a crush on her bc i asked for her number but stuttered saying it because i was very socially awkward. i was fat shamed sometimes in school and shamed bc ppl thought i was a lesbian because my ex-friend outed me when i said i had a crush on a girl
It sucked. My worst experiences grades 1-12 were in middle school.
It was alright
I threw up every morning from anxiety.
School in general sucked for me. Getting bullied and treated like garbage from kindergarten all the way till graduation does that. Made me not want to touch any form of schooling for years afterwards. I'm only now, 13 years later, starting to slowly open up to the possibility of maybe studying something in a structured school environment one day when I'm rich enough to afford it.
Worst years of my life. Some par for the course, some not. For example, it probably didn't help that my school district was going through a reorganization and I went to 4 different schools in 4 years (grades 6-9).
I tried to kill myself then
Bad. Homeschooled and socially isolated so on the rare occasion I did interact with kids my age, I didn't understand when I was being bullied, yet was so confused when someone was nice to me I thought they were bullying me. Oof, the 20/20 hindsight still burns a bit.
Well, one time a bunch of kids hit me and beat me with sticks like i was a piñata then they pushed me into the street whilst a truck was driving towards me. And the teachers didn't do jack squat about it because they didn't see it happen.
So no, Middle School was awful
Mostly spent time alone, I was too naive to understand how broken I really was, would be nice to back to that
I liked middle school. People were nice. Teachers cared. We managed to have some fun too. it was a break from the constant bullying at the school before. They had mean teachers too. High school was pretty bad for me. So, while middle school wasn’t everything I hoped it would be. It was better than both what came before and what came after.
Is that equivalent to years 7 to 9? I don't want to share too many details online, but safe to say those years were not a good experience for me.
@TheLeadenSea @therealverobiscuit Let's just say that's when I learned that any problems from a lack of SEN funding can be solved by punching teachers to the ground.
I would say it was alright. I may not have had many friends, but that extra time I had allowed me to get into programming with JavaScript and Python.
tl;dr: At the start of middle school it was terrible, bullying and sadness but by the end I had lots of friends, self confidence, I was getting attention from girls, just a complete 180.
6th grade, awful. Bullied, insecure egg. Very depressed
7th grade I realized I was taller and bigger than most of the other kids. Parents made me play rec league basketball and I would foul out every game swinging on jocks I didn't like. I also got into guns, airsoft, paintball, hunting, and knives that year. People pretty much completely stopped messing with me and I made friends. Still a depressed egg but it was much more bearable only feeling bad because of what's in my head vs how other people treated me
8th grade I started dressing better. People sometimes would ask if I was emo if I wore all black but not in a bullying way. I had long hair and I started straightening it. I'd tell people I was metrosexual and somehow never got made fun to my face for it. I was still repping guns was identity and knocking people over, smacking kids playing basketball. Still a depressed egg tho
Socially was okay, but academically was horrible.
Honestly not great, I started drinking and using at the time. I was academically a mess, I went a private school and was the poor kid who had a terrible temper and was often picked on knowing I’d fight. Very suicidal, very much an addict, my Dad was a workaholic and my Mom often had cancer so it was a mess
UK here, someone else mentioned that might be about year 7-9? Managed to not kill myself so I guess it could have been worse.
In and of itself was a good safe excellent school & peers & teachers but hormonally I had a couple crying episodes right in the middle of classroom those years.
I went to catholic school till 8th grade and was pretty introverted as a kid. So mostly bad but it basically got better really as I got older and high school was much better. I went from being the geek of the class to being in a group of geeks at a school.
Same but extroverted; if you weren’t a bully or hot it was just as bad
I’d say end of Sophmore year of HS it got better after initially being much worse, and went up from there; but looking back that might just be the bio-male “period of confident invinciblity”
oh high school definately has an arc. It amazed me by senior year how I was casually talking with one of our all state track guy stars whle my claim to fame was science olympiad. Its like freshman year everyone is desperate to find a place to fit in so you get clicks and sophmores emphasize it even more really in relation to giving hell to freshmen and reveling in not being freshmen but then junior year everyone starts to get how sorta stupid it is and by senior year folks are just trying to figure out what to do with college or other after graduation plans.
Year 7-9 was pretty alright for me! I had cut out all the people I dislike in my class by year 6 so after that I had a nice, tight-knit friend group.
Horrible time of my life.
It has had its memories. But, whenever I'm asked if I had any fond memories from my childhood, I leap to teenager years and high school. Because they were infinitely better.
My middle school years was filled with tons of humiliation, tons of setbacks, tons of embarrassing moments and nothing about it I've ever looked back on and was proud about. I was so hateful of my middle school years, I shredded all of my report cards. Not that they'd mean anything, but they reflected upon things about myself then and where everything was at the time. Sure I was a kid who did kid things, but I wasn't considered a normal kid and I didn't get to live a normal kid life.